Dear Artist, This morning, Janet Morgan of Brooklyn, N.Y., wrote, “My husband Gregory Frux and I will soon be leaving our jobs to become full-time artists. We’ve been doing some brainstorming. We both have projects and trips in our wish-books.…
Dear Artist, These days no self-respecting workshop instructor goes half an hour without mentioning negative space. So prevalent has this stylistic concept become that it’s currently central to practically all types of pictorial composition. In my own work, the “backwardosis”…
Dear Artist, The English poet William Wordsworth (works) had a concept that he called “Spots of Time.” These are small, memorable events that occur mainly outdoors and in touch with nature. According to Wordsworth these spots have lasting quality and…
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping you from an alpine-flowered slope above Two Jack Lake, near Banff, Alberta. Earlier today, at a First Nations’ powwow, Stoney elder David Daniels said, “These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that…
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping you from the dome car on the Rocky Mountaineer. It’s a summertime rail service that runs between Vancouver, B.C. and Banff, Alberta. Every time Rami, our well-informed steward, points out something of interest — a mountain,…
Dear Artist, Like a lot of artists who have been around for a while, there are people out there doing fairly commendable copies of my work. Some copy “in the manner of” — the general themes and ideas. Others copy…
Dear Artist, Just when I thought we might have maxed out on syndromes and disorders — attention deficit disorder, highly sensitive persons, etc., yet another has shown up in the studio inbox. Among the forest of responses to my letter on…
